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Without you : a memoir of love, loss, and the musical Rent
Anthony Rapp · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 309
Format: Print book
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Actor Rapp recounts his life-changing experience in the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent. Rapp had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock musical from his first audition, so he was thrilled when he landed a starring role. When Rent opened to thunderous... |
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
Aldon D Morris · University of California Press,
Pages: 282
Format: Print book
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In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris's ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois's work in the founding of the discipline. Calling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed,... |
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
Nicholas Reynolds · William Morrow
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "riveting"* international cloak-and-dagger epic, here is the stunning untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life -- including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo" -- that fueled his art and his undoing.In 2010, while... |
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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
Raghu Karnad · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family.The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother's house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War,... |
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South and West: From a Notebook
JOAN DIDION · Knopf
Pages: 126
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard... |
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Good Grief: Life in a Tiny Vermont Village
Ellen Stimson · Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An Endless Vacation Becomes a Way of Life! One vacation changed everything. Ellen Stimson and her husband had such a wonderful time in Vermont that they wondered what living there would really be like. “What if we stayed here . . . forever?” So began the series of adventures... |
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Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Nell Irvin Painter · Counterpoint
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"Old in Art School is a glorious achievement -- bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives." -- Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage and Silver Sparrow "I was used to juggling... |
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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
LENORA CHU · Harper
Pages: 347
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors' PickIn the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China's widely acclaimed yet insular education... |
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
CATHRYN JAKOBSON RAMIN · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm,... |
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I'll Take Care of You
Caitlin Rother · Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pages: 417
Format: Paperback
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Rother is the next Ann Rule.--Gregg Olsen Praise for Caitlin Rother "A superb writer." --Los Angeles Times"A star in the field of true crime." --The San Diego Union-Tribune"Will keep you on the edge of your seat." --Aphrodite JonesNanette Johnston Packard,... |
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Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
Jay Parini · Doubleday
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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"The life of Gore Vidal was an amazingly full one: full of colorful incident, famous people, and lasting achievements that calls out for careful evocation and examination. Jay Parini crafts Vidal's life into [a] ... story that puts the experience of one of the great American figures... |
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Getting Real
Gretchen Carlson · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A candid, funny memoir from the charismatic FOX News channel anchor and Miss America Pageant winner Celebrity news anchorwoman Gretchen Carlson shares her inspiring story and offers important takeaways for women (and men) about what it means to strive for and find success in the real... |
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Wiseguy
Nicholas Pileggi · Pocket Books
Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has... |
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